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Steering Green Transitions (February)

February 3, 2025, 8:00 pm EST
Real solutions to the climate crisis depend on workers' know-how. CEOs usually cling to their dirty profits, or try to cash in on green technology to bust our unions and degrade our jobs. In this new online workshop from Labor Notes, you'll hear from rank-and-file workers who organized collective action for better jobs and a livable climate. »

Workshop: What To Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart (February)

February 4, 2025, 7:30 pm EST
Cartoon by Mary Matthews, drawingdailyusa.com If you’re a union member, unfortunately the chances are good that you’ve had your heart broken at least once by one of your own leaders. Whether you tried to get involved and there was nowhere to go, or the members got sold out, or leaders want to keep the union as their exclusive club, it can feel pretty harsh. In this workshop, we’ll talk about how to organize with your fellow union members to recommit to your union, and to change the culture into one where leaders respect and serve the members. »

Steward's Workshop: Assertive Grievance Handling (February)

February 24, 2025, 7:30 pm EST
This workshop has limited capacity and is for stewards and elected officers who work with stewards - not staff. Please register only if this applies to you. Fighting grievances isn’t only about how well you argue your case. It’s also about organizing members to build pressure on management. This workshop will focus on how to win creatively without going to arbitration—or sometimes without even filing a grievance. »

Past Events

Secrets of a Successful Organizer (January)

January 30, 2025, 7:30 pm EST
You've been talking to your co-workers, and they say they feel overworked, underpaid, and increasingly pressured by productivity quotas and the ever present threat of discipline. How do you fight for better? Secrets of a Successful Organizer is Labor Notes' core organizing training, in three sessions full of lively participatory exercises. We welcome first-timers and repeat attendees looking to sharpen their skills. »

Stewards' Workshop: Holding Effective Meetings (January)

January 29, 2025, 7:00 pm EST
This workshop is intended for stewards and elected officers who work closely with stewards. Please register only if this applies to you. Chances are that we've all been to a bad meeting. One person talked the whole time, the meeting ran way too long, people left with no clearer sense of what to do about their workplace problems, and so on. But meetings don't have to be this way. Meetings can be a way for shop stewards to bring their coworkers together to build strength in their fight against the boss—when they're run effectively. »

Labor Notes National Call: Beating the Billionaires in 2025

January 27, 2025, 7:30 pm EST
Photo by Matt Leichenger, member of Teamsters Local 804 Following the presidential election, CEOs are eager to use 2025 to bust our unions and divide working people like we've never seen. From public workers to the building trades to everyone striving to win their first union, we all have a ton on the line. It's time to get organized to fight. »

Race and Labor (January)

January 9, 2025, 7:30 pm EST
How does racism show up in our workplaces and in our unions? What are some strategies to confront it and build solidarity for a stronger, multiracial labor movement? And what can you say to union siblings who aren’t convinced racial justice has anything to do with union politics? This workshop addresses how class and race are inextricably linked, tracing back the origins of “race” as an invention of the ruling class to divide workers. We'll talk about how to move to strategies of unity. This workshop has three parts. We ask that you attend all of them. »

Labor Notes National Call: Union Solidarity with Immigrant Workers

January 6, 2025, 8:00 pm EST
As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented workers, that persecution threatens the power and solidarity of all of us in the labor movement. From farm workers to food processing to janitors to taxi drivers to building trades to everyone whose labor makes society run, we draw strength from the recognition that an injury to one is an injury to all. Join rank-and-file union members at the Labor Notes National Call on building solidarity to support immigrant workers. »

Llamado nacional de Labor Notes: Solidaridad sindical con los trabajadores inmigrantes

January 6, 2025, 8:00 pm EST
Mientras la administración Trump toma medidas contra los trabajadores indocumentados, esa persecución amenaza el poder y la solidaridad de todos nosotros en el movimiento laboral. Desde los trabajadores agrícolas hasta los procesadores de alimentos, los conserjes, los taxistas, los trabajadores de la construcción y todos aquellos cuyo trabajo hace funcionar a la sociedad, nos fortalece el reconocimiento de que un ataque contra uno es un ataque contra todos. »

Stewards' Workshop: Thinking Like an Organizer (December)

December 12, 2024, 6:00 pm EST
This workshop is intended for stewards and elected officers who work closely with stewards. Please register only if this applies to you. Join Labor Notes for an online workshop for shop stewards on “thinking like an organizer.” This workshop is based on this article of the same name. Shop stewards are the face of the union for most members - the people members see day to day, and rely on for everything from basic questions about the job to handling complicated grievances. »

Workshop: What To Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart (December)

December 10, 2024, 7:30 pm EST
Cartoon by Mary Matthews, drawingdailyusa.com If you’re a union member, unfortunately the chances are good that you’ve had your heart broken at least once by one of your own leaders. Whether you tried to get involved and there was nowhere to go, or the members got sold out, or leaders want to keep the union as their exclusive club, it can feel pretty harsh. In this workshop, we’ll talk about how to organize with your fellow union members to recommit to your union, and to change the culture into one where leaders respect and serve the members. »

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